Existentialism

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• Leftist Thought Led To Fascism – And Is Doing So Again

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  Liberals think that the title of Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism is an oxymoron.  They’re wrong.  Goldberg himself writes: “For more than sixty years, liberals have insisted that the bacillus of fascism lies semi-dormant in the bloodstream of the political right.  And yet with the notable and ...
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• "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in..."

  
  WAXIN' AND MILKIN' — Authority: 129
  “Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the...
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• Middle Way Mormonism and Authenticity

  
  Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Authority: 419
  Don’t believe enough to be an orthodox, true-blue Mormon… …but you still have some compelling reason to stay…you don’t want to abandon your Mormonism… Is there such a thing as a Middle Way ? Many people think so. Madam Curie wrote a great blog post assessing if Middle Way Mormonism is actually ...
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• Problems of Brad Pitt: Pretty Lower Ninth Public Housing Pissing People Off? [Volunteerism]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Further proving the road to hell as indeed paved with good intentions—or in this case, "green" concrete— Brad Pitt s taking flack for building public housing in New Orleans Katrina-devastated Lower Ninth ward. The houses are dreamy . The reaction isnt. Brad Pitt, whos presumably done more for the city of New ...
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• First Video from Sheldan Nidle Montgomery, AL Workshop

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 108
  Agarthans, Humanity’s Mentors I have had Sheldan Nidle as a guest on Talk For Food on several occasions. The first time was in April 2008, as one of the stops on my first seven-day “road trip” to Northern California. At the time hadn’t realized that I had actually read one of his early books, You ...
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• Recommended Reading Material

  
  Total Dick-Head — Authority: 108
  Apologies for the paucity of posts recently. The grading flurry has begun as I try to return essays before the end of the semester, but Ill bet youre sick of my excuses. I have been sneaking some time to reread Martian Time-Slip and am enjoying it immensely. Dont know if Ill have time to delve into the novel as ...
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• Simone de Beauvoir and Phenomenology

  
  The Mustard Seed — Authority: 125
  Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson Here is a short piece from a post I did at The Excerpt Mill on   Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) in where I quote Barbara S. Andrew: One of the most significant aspects of The Second Sex is its encyclopedic indexing of women’s lived experience: biology, psychology, the ...
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• The Manhattan Declaration As The New Barmen Declaration

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  Christians are hearing about the Manhattan Declaration with great excitement.  It is a tremendous document with tremendous support from some tremendous Christian figures. The actual declaration (linked to above) is some 4,000 plus words long, and is available to read at the link above.  But here is the nutshell ...
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• Hallucinogenic drug made Jean-Paul Sartre ‘fall in love’ with lobsters

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 22 (ANI): A new book has revealed that European thinker Jean-Paul Sartre used to have hallucinations of lobsters, which once even chased him down the Champs Elysées.New York professor John Gerassi’s book sheds light on the conversation between him and the French philosopher about mescaline, a ...
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• Courting Ellen West

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  “The Case of Ellen West” was published by the Swiss psychiatrist, Ludwig Binswanger, in 1944–1945 and (as far as I can tell) appeared in English translation in 1958. Anyone know where I can get a copy? Usual search suspects are turning up only the Carl Rogers article, "Ellen West and Loneliness", in the Review ...
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• Does History Matter?

  
  Hammermarks — Authority: 415
  Wood, Elements #8 ©2009 Wendy Edsall-Kerwin How important is the history of a piece to your enjoyment of it?  How important is the cultural environment surrounding an artwork—the when and where of its creation? I was at a meeting of the Creative House of Lancaster last night and we were participating in a ...
  1 week ago

• Paddling from where I was

  
  MY GULCH... — Authority: 114
  For days, I’ve been paddling my own canoe, only to find out that I was going nowhere. I am where I was. Some thing I realized just a few minutes ago. -------- I took this photo when I was in Pearl Island in Guiuan, Eastern Samar. The four of us were riding a Seeker , a small boat with a hole covered in glass at ...
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• Ego: Distinguishing between self-assertive and self-centered

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Eckart Tolle says "Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind." Thats a bold assertion. Maybe its true but it is worth examining if it wouldnt be egotistical of me to do so. It raises questions like how we come by this dysfunction and insanity?  If its that bad why ...
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• Tolletalitarian: Tolles trouble distinguishing between self-assertive and self-centered

  
  Ambigamy — Authority: 114
  Eckart Tolle says "Recognize the ego for what it is: a collective dysfunction, the insanity of the human mind." Thats a bold assertion. Maybe its true but it is worth examining if it wouldnt be egotistical of me to do so. It raises questions like how we come by this dysfunction and insanity?  If its that bad why ...
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• CBT = Existentialism?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Ive recently come to the conclusion that cognitive behavioral therapy, the empirically-demonstrated gold standard for treating depression and a host of other problems, necessitates a belief in existentialism, a philosophy holding that we live in a meaningless universe.  How can happiness derive from appreciating the ...
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• Connecting the ‘Dots’ on Structured Water

  
  Thought for Food — Authority: 108
  My quest to understand and appreciate the nature, behavior, and essence of structured water is ongoing. Feedback from new structured water experiencers continues to stream in, and it is no less than amazing. Water plays a grossly unappreciated role in the human health matrix. Our failure to examine water, and to ...
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• Book Review: Matters of Death and Life

  
  Dr. Norris Chumley Satisfied Life — Authority: 129
  Mark C. Taylor, noted philosopher, scholar, professor of religion and Chair of the Columbia University Department of Religion, has published a glowing, often super-real and sometimes surreal collection of essays on the human condition.  "Field Notes From Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living" from Columbia ...
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• Wilfred Owen’s “Futility”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  One of Wilfred Owen’s great poems is titled “Futility” (1918). It begins with a commander of men at war directing a couple of his soldiers to move into the sun the body of a recently dead comrade: Move him into the sun— Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke ...
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• The Myth of Sissyphus [Existentialism]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Dude waits 12 hours in rain so girlfriend can buy H&M; Jimmy Choos . Related: Sissyphus .
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• Its Gonna Be One Of Those Days, Isnt It? [Existentialism]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  The first thing in this mornings Gawker Weekend inbox: People Talking on Bananas . Sigh.
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